The White House is weighing mass pardons for junior staff.
Posted by Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar, Checked
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Breaking Points with Krystal and SaagarOct 27, 2026
The claim matches the passage and is supported as of 2026-10-27: The Washington Sun reported on Oct 24 that White House attorneys were evaluating mass pardons for junior staffers, and several outlets repeated that reporting, with Newser also quoting Trump on the issue.
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… I think whenever you look at some of the other stuff that's going on behind the scenes, you're going to i mean, look, I actually, I wonder how much that analysis holds true, because, for example, let's put E six, for example, up here on the screen. Obviously, this was a big story over the weekend: the White House is weighing mass pardons for junior staff. I mean, you remember when we covered all of that Rick Grinnell stuff with Alina Haba, or whatever her now married name is, the, you know, the name of the Turkish billionaire who she married, where it's like literally MAGA infighting and sniping. …
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The Washington Sun reported on Oct 24, 2026 that White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers, citing two sources familiar with the conversations.[2]
Supports. HuffPost reported on Oct 26 that President Trump is considering mass pardons for junior staffers, citing the Washington Sun.[1]
Supports. Political Wire, Yahoo/Mediaite and Newser carried the same report that the White House is weighing or reviewing mass pardons for junior staff, and Newser quotes Trump on the matter in Oct 2026.[3][4][5][6]
Context. One source told the Washington Sun that a blanket pardon for all junior personnel is unlikely, but pardons covering particular policy areas such as deportations, war or trade could happen.[2][4]
Context. A later Nov 2 aggregator summary still describes lawyers as considering blanket pardons for junior staffers, but it relies on the same Washington Sun reporting rather than an independent record.[7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 tier 2, 6 not rated
- 1Trump Wants To Expand Pardons To Junior Staffers: Report - HuffPosthuffpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 2White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staffwashingtonsun.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff - Political Wirepoliticalwire.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Trump Admin 'Evaluating' Mass Pardons for Junior Staffers: Reportyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Trump Admin ‘Evaluating' Mass Pardons for Junior Staffers: Reportmediaite.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Trump Reportedly Weighs Mass Pardons for Junior Staffnewser.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staffground.news · not rated · cited for: context
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